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The Amazon River jungle is the world’s largest forest and it’s often described as the lungs of the earth. Its dense vegetation covers more than three million square miles of land, and stretches across nine countries. The world first came to the Amazon in search of the mythical Eldorado, the city of gold. What the explorers found instead was what still attracts visitors to this day; trees as tall as skyscrapers, tens of thousands of species of plants and animals, and unique and fascinating cultures that call this region home. . . . Read article…